Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Seymour Hoffman

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Philip Johnson

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Peter De Vries

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

Peter Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peg Bracken

When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

Paulo Coelho

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

Marlene Dietrich

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlon Brando

Acting is an empty and usless profession.

Marissa Mayer

Vince Lombardi says, you know, in my life there are three things: God, family, and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family, and Yahoo, in that order.

Mariah Carey

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

Mariah Carey

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Megan Fox

I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.

Megan Fox

Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Megan Fox

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Megan Fox

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

Megan Fox

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

Megan Fox

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Megan Fox

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Megan Fox

If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

George Segal

The lyrics are quite solid and informative, as well as witty, sharp and funny. That's what makes it work.

Bill Cosby

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

This is a good two-minute piece of why this guy got into the running in a funny way.

Niels Bohr

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

Nicole Kidman

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

Nadia Ali

Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.

Mort Sahl

My life needs editing.

Miranda Otto

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Mignon McLaughlin

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Mignon McLaughlin

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Mignon McLaughlin

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.